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Volume 55 August, 2011 Volume 55 August, 2011 Openbox: Using feh To Manage Your Wallpaper Openbox: Tint2 vs Lxpanel Openbox: Customize Your Right Click Menu Game Zone: DosBox ­ Play Your Games From Yesteryear Photo Viewers Galore, Part 4 Using Scribus, Part 8: Getting Ready For The PDF Secure Your Notebook PCLinuxOS Installation By Encrypting Partitions Alternate OS: Plan9, Part 2 Touchpad Solutions With Xorg 1.10.3 Forum Foibles: Summer Recipe Edition And more inside! TTaabbllee ooff CCoonntteennttss 3 Welcome From The Chief Editor 4 Openbox: Tint2 vs Lxpanel 10 Screenshot Showcase 11 Double Take & Mark's Quick Gimp Tip 12 ms_meme's Nook: Way Down Yonder In Linux Land The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of Texstar. 13 Using Scribus, Part 8: Getting Ready For The PDF The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online publication 15 Openbox: Using feh To Manage Your Wallpaper containing PCLinuxOS­related materials. It is published primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS community. The 17 Forum Foibles: Summer Recipe Edition magazine staff is comprised of volunteers from the 22 Happy 20th Birthday, Linux! PCLinuxOS community. 23 Screenshot Showcase Visit us online at http://www.pclosmag.com 24 Touchpad Solutions With Xorg 1.10.3 This release was made possible by the following volunteers: 25 Screenshot Showcase Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote) 26 Openbox: Customize Your Right Click Menu Assistant Editors: Meemaw, Andrew Strick (Stricktoo) Artwork: Sproggy, Timeth, ms_meme, Meemaw 29 Screenshot Showcase Magazine Layout: Paul Arnote, Meemaw, ms_meme 30 Alternate OS: Plan9, Part 2 HTML Layout: Sproggy 33 Video: Part 9 ­ DVDStyler Intro Staff: Neal Brooks ms_meme 36 Photo Viewers Galore, Part 4 Galen Seaman Mark Szorady Patrick Horneker Darrel Johnston 39 ms_meme's Nook: I Love That OS Rag Guy Taylor Meemaw Andrew Huff Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. 40 Thessaloniki's Hackerspace Pete Kelly Daniel Meiß­Wilhelm 41 OS Hackers Archie Arevalo 42 Game Zone ­ DosBox: Play Your Games From Yesteryear Contributors: as Efstathios Iosifidis 45 Setup cpufreq To Keep Your Laptop Cool longtom billy7720 Texstar wyzwyk 46 Secure Your Notebook PCLinuxOS Installation By Encrypting Partitions The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative 50 Testimonial: On Becoming A Deep Water Sailor Commons Attribution­NonCommercial­Share­Alike 3.0 51 Screenshot Showcase Unported license. Some rights are reserved. Copyright © 2011. 52 More Screenshot Showcase 2 WWeellccoommee FFrroomm TThhee CChhiieeff EEddiittoorr The release of the various flavors of the 2.6.x line. The PCLinuxOS continue to roll out the advancement of the Linux door. In June, we saw the release of kernel version number the KDE version and the LXDE also comes on the 20th versions. July saw the release of the anniversary of the “birth” KDE Minime release, along with the of Linux. release of Phoenix, the Xfce version, featuring the latest Xfce 4.8. July also Meanwhile, the climate is saw the release of the minimal Gnome wrecking havoc for many 2.32.1 version, via the Zen release. users. Much of North America is locked into a Currently in the works are new versions blast furnace with of Openbox, a new copy of Phinx temperatures to match, (Phoenix Mini), the minimal version of while a good portion of Xfce 4.8, and a new full Gnome Europe is experiencing release. Also in the works are newer, below average updated versions of e17, a new 64­bit temperatures this version of PCLinuxOS, a minimal, summer. lightweight command line version (called pCLI­nox, representing its CLI Fortunately, my wife and I interface and the fact that it doesn’t use missed the start of the Xorg), and a special lightweight GUI blast furnace here in the 2 version, featuring a choice of up to Midwestern United States, It's easier than E=mc three different minimalistic, ultra­ having returned from It's elemental lightweight GUI desktops. vacation in Estes Park, Colorado, with its idealistic summer weather. Daytime temperatures were in the It's light years ahead All of the new flavors of PCLinuxOS (with the mid to upper 70s and lower 80s (Fahrenheit, for my exception of pCLI­nox) feature an updated 2.6.38.x international friends), and the upper 40s and lower It's a wise choice Linux kernel, along with Xorg updated to 1.10.3, and 50s at night – all without hardly any humidity. new drivers to match. It's Radically Simple Wherever you are in the world, I hope you are It's ... Linus Torvalds announced the end of the 2.6.x Linux staying safe and keeping cool (or warm, if you’re in kernel, replaced by the 3.0.x Linux kernel. Although the middle of the Southern hemisphere’s winter). there are no earth­shattering, monumental Until next month, I wish all of you happiness, advancements in the 3.0.x Linux kernel, it does prosperity, serenity and good health. represent a “coming of age” of the Linux kernel – and an end to the high minor version numbers of the 2.6.x kernel, with the 2.6.39 kernel being the last in 3 OOppeennbbooxx:: TTiinntt22 vvss LLxxppaanneell by Paul Arnote (parnote) Lxpanel As you may have noticed, the PCLinuxOS version of Openbox comes in two versions: a “full” version with a full compliment of pre­installed applications, and the “Bonsai” version, which is a lightweight installation that comes with a minimum of pre­ Tint2 installed applications. But the differences don’t stop there. from the Openbox right click menu, regardless of Here’s the tint2rc file from my Openbox installation: which panel you choose to use. One notable difference is the selection of the panel used by the two versions. The “full” version uses Since we have already covered lxpanel in a previous # Tint2 config file tint2 as the panel, while Bonsai uses lxpanel to issue (October, 2010) when we were covering the # Generated by tintwizard provide the end user with a useful panel. LXDE desktop, much of the rest of this article will (http://code.google.com/p/tintwizard/) deal with tint2 and how to configure it. # For information on manually configuring tint2 see Lxpanel is “borrowed” from the LXDE desktop. Tint2 http://code.google.com/p/tint2/wiki/ is a product of a “Google Summer of Code” project, Configure with the aim to create a simple, easy to use and Tint2 lightweight panel. Currently, tint2 is up to version # Background definitions 0.11. Let’s start off by taking a closer look at the tint2 # ID 1 panel (bottom). rounded = 7 Both work exceptionally well, and both are excellent border_width = 2 choices for a lightweight panel. Which you use background_color = #000000 60 The tint2 panel, by default, does not show you all border_color = #FFFFFF 16 depends on what you are expecting from a panel. desktops in a single view, nor does it separate the icons by desktop. Thankfully, the tint2 panel is # ID 2 At first glance, the most noticeable difference is that configurable and easy to configure, thanks to the rounded = 5 lxpanel has an application menu, a quick launch tint2rc file. It is located in your border_width = 0 area, and a desktop pager, while those items are /home/username/.config/tint2 folder. With just background_color = #FFFFFF 40 lacking in the tint2 panel. However, both lxpanel and a few simple edits of the tint2rc file, you can easily border_color = #FFFFFF 48 tint2 have a task bar area, a system tray and a configure tint2 to be the panel you want. clock. My initial reaction to the tint2 panel wasn’t all # ID 3 that positive, since it was missing some of the items rounded = 5 I was accustomed to using on my panel. However, the “missing items” on the tint2 panel really aren’t all that missed, since all of those items are available 4 Openbox: Tint2 vs Lxpanel border_width = 0 # Task Icons # Mouse background_color = #FFFFFF 16 task_icon_asb = 70 0 0 mouse_middle = none border_color = #FFFFFF 68 task_active_icon_asb = 100 0 0 mouse_right = close task_urgent_icon_asb = 100 0 0 mouse_scroll_up = toggle # Panel task_iconified_icon_asb = 70 0 0 mouse_scroll_down = iconify panel_monitor = all # Fonts panel_position = bottom center horizontal task_font = sans 7 # Battery panel_size = 94% 30 task_font_color = #FFFFFF 68 battery = 0 panel_margin = 0 0 task_active_font_color = #FFFFFF 83 battery_low_status = 10 panel_padding = 7 0 7 task_urgent_font_color = #FFFFFF 83 battery_low_cmd = notify­send "battery low" panel_dock = 0 task_iconified_font_color = #FFFFFF 68 battery_hide = 98 wm_menu = 0 font_shadow = 0 bat1_font = sans 8 panel_layer = top bat2_font = sans 6 panel_background_id = 1 # System Tray battery_font_color = #FFFFFF 74 systray = 1 battery_padding = 1 0 # Panel Autohide systray_padding = 0 4 5 battery_background_id = 0 autohide = 0 systray_sort = ascending autohide_show_timeout = 0.3 systray_background_id = 0 # End of config autohide_hide_timeout = 2 systray_icon_size = 16 systray_icon_asb = 70 0 0 autohide_height = 2 I do NOT recommend using the “Tint Wizard” strut_policy = follow_size program to control and change your settings. # Clock Rather, I recommend editing the tint2rc file by hand, # Taskbar time1_format = %H:%M time1_font = sans 8 by loading it into Geany – or any other plain text taskbar_mode = multi_desktop editor. From my personal experience, I can attest to taskbar_padding = 2 3 2 time2_format = %a %B %d taskbar_background_id = 0 time2_font = sans 6 the fact that the Tint Wizard program is quite taskbar_active_background_id = 0 clock_font_color = #FFFFFF 74 capable of producing corrupt tint2rc files. While a clock_padding = 1 0 good idea, it doesn’t seem to be well implemented. clock_background_id = 0 You will have more consistent results by hand # Tasks clock_rclick_command = orage urgent_nb_of_blink = 8 editing the file – at least for now, until the Tint task_icon = 1 Wizard bugs are worked out. task_text = 1 # Tooltips task_centered = 1 tooltip = 0 task_maximum_size = 140 35 tooltip_padding = 2 2 task_padding = 6 2 tooltip_show_timeout = 0.7 Background IDs task_background_id = 3 tooltip_hide_timeout = 0.3 task_active_background_id = 2 tooltip_background_id = 1 The very first thing that is listed are the background task_urgent_background_id = 2 tooltip_font = sans 10 tooltip_font_color = #000000 80 definitions.
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